Which is the better mapping community for amateur cartographers? We take the battle between Google Map Maker and OpenStreetMap to the streets to find out.

Microsoft is to closely cooperate with the OpenStreetMap project, whose founder it has hired.The initiative, announced on Tuesday, is starting with Microsoft's release of aerial Bing Maps imagery ...

OpenStreetMap is the handiwork of Steve Coast (pictured above), a University College London "dropout" (Coast's own words) who has since gone on to work in various map- and location-related roles ...

Google Maps may be the dominant player in the mapping business still, but there's a rising star in an open-source competitor called OpenStreetMap that's been heavily backed by Microsoft. Due to ...

If you're looking for detailed maps of the Olympic sites around Sochi, Google maps may not be your best bet. OpenStreetMap, the crowdsourced Wikipedia of cartography, looks to have much better ...

Google has become the king of maps because of the technology that it has developed over the past eight years. One competitor, OpenStreetMap, has developed its own tools and built a community of ...

OpenStreetMap, the user-created map used by many of the biggest sites on the web, has today unveiled an entirely new editor that makes it easier to contribute than ever before. According to the ...

In a major step forward for opensource geodata, Yahoo! Maps has green-lighted a deal with OpenStreetMap, raising the possibility of breaking the stranglehold on mapping data in the UK. Mikel Maron ...

You can now turn on a special layer in Bing Maps that displays maps from OpenStreetMap, Microsoft has announced. OpenStreetMap is an open source mapping project that keeps an editable map of the ...

Apple decided to use OpenStreetMap data from April 2010 in the new iPhoto for iPad and iPhone instead of Google Maps.

From internet protocols and operating systems, to databases and cloud services, some technology is so omnipresent most people don't even know it exists. The same can be said about OpenStreetMap ...